TI-2026-30020 Aliases CVE-2026-41421

SiYuan Desktop Notification XSS Leads to Electron RCE

HIGH 73CWE-78Published 2026-04-24 · Updated 2026-04-25

Key facts

Attack vector: Local
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Attack complexity: Low
Impact type: Code execution, Cross-site scripting
Confidentiality · integrity · availability: High · High · High
Fix status: Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-78 and CWE-79.

Summary

SiYuan is an open-source personal knowledge management system. Prior to 3.6.5, SiYuan desktop renders notification messages as raw HTML inside an Electron renderer. The notification route POST /api/notification/pushMsg accepts a user-controlled msg value, forwards it through the backend broadcast layer, and the frontend inserts it into the DOM with insertAdjacentHTML(...) at message.ts. On desktop builds, this is not limited to ordinary XSS. Electron windows are created with nodeIntegration: true, contextIsolation: false, and webSecurity: false at main.js. As a result, JavaScript executed from the notification sink can directly access Node APIs and escalate to desktop code execution. This vulnerability is fixed in 3.6.5.

Why it matters now

Exploitation Proof of concept CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV

EPSS 0.00134 2nd percentileScored 2026-11-07

Fix Fixed siyuan (siyuan-note): 3.6.5

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation: Poc
Automatable: No
Technical impact: Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

Vendor	Product	Affected versions	Fixed in	Status	Source
siyuan-note	siyuan	before 3.6.5	3.6.5	Patch available	CNA

siyuan Vendorsiyuan-note Affected before 3.6.5 Fixed in 3.6.5 Patch available CNA

CPE names Threatist (inferred) · 1

Inferred from how NVD named this product before; not given by a source.

CPE	Versions	Role	Vendor
cpe:2.3:a:b3log:siyuan::::::::	—	—	siyuan-note

cpe:2.3:a:b3log:siyuan:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions — — ·siyuan-note

Remediation

Fix · CNA siyuan (siyuan-note) Fixed in 3.6.5

Timeline

2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-41421

References

Other 1

https://github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/security/advisories/GHSA-grjj-6f6g-cq8q

TI-2026-48492 SiYuan before v3.7.3 SQL Injection via searchDocs CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.9
TI-2026-48491 SiYuan before v3.7.3 SQL Injection via searchEmbedBlock CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.9
TI-2026-48490 SiYuan before v3.7.3 SQL Injection via fullTextSearchAssetContent CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 9.9
TI-2026-47010 SiYuan before v3.7.2 Unauthenticated Administrator Takeover via MCP CVSS 4.0CRITICAL 10.0
TI-2026-26050 SiYuan has directory traversal within its publishing service CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8
TI-2026-25256 SiYuan: Authorization Bypass Allows Arbitrary SQL Execution via Search API CVSS 3.1CRITICAL 9.8

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Sources

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